Posts by alc6379

More than likely, you're looking at a bad CPU or Motherboard.

Did you disconnect all drive power cables and data cables, too? You can try clearing the CMOS jumper on the system, too. Short of that, you're probably looking at a dead motherboard or CPU, like I said.

Check out this site:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html

...Moving thread to Networking. This seems the more appropriate place. Please specify what OS you are running, so others can assist you better.

In order to answer your question we need more information:

Exactly how are you wanting to burn the CDs? Are you wanting them to be VCDs? If that's the case, here's a Google For Linux search that might help:
http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=vcd&btnG=Search

Why not just leave the drive out at install time?

Simply install without the IDE drive in, then insert the drive, and initialize it, and edit /etc/fstab to mount the drive as /home, and migrate the user's files over. That's all it should take.

Can you remove the IDE hard drive while installing? what are you mounting it as when you install?

I can tell you this much-- removing that drive will force it to install to /dev/sda. Otherwise, you could use a LiveCD like Knoppix, and chroot into your installation. From there, you could configure grub yourself however you need it to be done.

Are you setting these mountpoints up as a regular user? You need to do it as root.

If you're running in Virtual PC, have you even configured the Virtual PC setup to pass on USB connections? I know that's something you've got to do in VMWare-- once I did that, I could use my USB hard drive with the Virtual machine just fine.

Do you know what underlying chipset that card uses? If you can find that out, then we can probably help out further.

Try searching Google for Linux to find that out-- while you're there, you might be able to even find out how to actually configure the device...

It's possible that the problem could be your domain is specified as MyLinux. You probably need to change it so your workgroup is MyLinux in your smb.conf file.

Did you delete or reformat any of the Linux partitions when you did this? that's almost what it sounds like...

Closing thread. Please continue discussion in this thread:
http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread31666.html

Wow. It looks like your missing quite a few files.

Please do not ask me to reinstall my OS (unless it is inevitable)

It is specifically, "to avoid," having to face that...that..truly.. heart rending- mind twisting -teeth grinding (I need not go on) task, "that" I was more then open to the idea of installing Linux (a supposedly "WONDERFULLY stable" OS) which it really has been....

The important thing to do is try to remember everything that took place before this happened. Did you perform an update, or attempt to install a particular program? Update a library, perhaps? It looks like maybe that occured-- you used something like a Mandrake update, and maybe it didn't go over swimmingly.

In that same vane, don't loose sight that Linux is a stable OS. ANY OS will go sour if critical files have been deleted. Log into a SCO UNIX system, or an AIX machine, and see how well it fares if you delete /usr/lib. That's basically what has happened on this system. I can personally attest that Linux is stable-- I've got systems that I haven't rebooted in months, and they do daily work serving files, etc, and some even do remote login sessions via GDM over a network. Nary a problem if you're very methodical in what you do on the system. That holds true for any OS, as well.

Unless you've got a complete system backup, my advice is going to be for you to reinstall. you …

you could do that REALLY quickly:

cd mydir/
for i in *.mid : do 
     myfile.sh
done

I think that's right-- just do a little for loop can handle that nicely. You'll want to check my syntax-- I think it's right, though.

I think you can say the answer is LOTS-- Fedora's a good one, but you could just about pick any distro to do that, and have Gnome available.

What kind of user do you consider yourself to be? A power user? A newbie? What are you planning on doing with the system?

By the way, this post needs more cowbell! Love the avatar!

It really depends... which drive do you want to boot from?

If the system can do either, then it doesn't matter-- just pick a drive to install to, and go from there.

If the user is not in the appropriate group, or if they're not the owner of the folder, they fall in the "Other" category. If you place a period in front, like Christian mentioned, you'll hide it. If you simply remove the read priviledge from the other group, that would do it. That way, they couldn't get a listing of the directory

For instance, if you wanted the group and the owner associated with read/write privs, but didn't want non-group members to read it, you could do chmod 660 foldername

Of course, if you really don't want people to access it, put it in a place they can't get to. If you've got an FTP root directory, put that folder in a directory that the unauthorized user has no access to.

That's a really good question. To find out the details, you should check out this book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596002130/qid=1125702982/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4454637-1634534?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I'm not trying to plug anything, but it explains it. I'd describe it in detail, but it's a little over my head. If I remember correctly, one's a "virtual" page table, that maps to the two other page tables, or something. I'm no kernel hacker, though-- that book explains how the situation is.

It's a search assistant. If you read the privacy policy at www.myway.com, they tell you what they do. It's not dangerous, but they collect some information when you visit certain sites.

If you don't want it, uninstall it. It's in Add/Remove programs, listed as MyWay.

Hi there,

Community Introductions is not the appropriate forum for questions. Please post your question to a forum more appropriate.

Thanks!

Do you even know if AutoCAD can be scripted?

I know you said you're not a programmer, but I'd start looking for an AutoCAD API or library reference. Now might be as good a time as ever to begin hashing this stuff out.

No problem! Happy to help!

Is your laptop still within Warranty? That's a part your manufacturer will replace, if it's messed up. That's usually either a motherboard replacement, or a little jack attached to the bottom plastics assembly on the laptop.

Proxies and firewalls are different.

If you're wanting to secure an environment, you install a firewall, block of EVERYTHING, except for the ports on the proxy server (another physical machine, usually) that you want allowed out to the Internet. Then, you configure your client machines to use the proxy server for things like HTTP, FTP, HTTPS, etc. Normally, since you'd have your own mailserver in a setup like this, you wouldn't want to have the clients doing POP, IMAP, or SMTP directly out to the 'Net. The proxy could do filtering based on URLs, or based on content, so your clients can't get out to resources you want to deny access to.

The second configuration would be for the sake of caching, or performance increases. The only difference between that and the previous configuration is that you might not care so much about the firewall configuration-- just set the proxy up to do caching, and (hopefully) you'll benefit from a speed increase when browsers hit commonly accessed pages.

Squid for Linux/UNIX/BSD is a great example of a cache/proxy server, and I've heard ISA (Internet Security and Accelleration) Server for Windows Server is pretty good. Offhand, those are the ones I think of. As far as what services are available on a proxy, you'll just have to try to find out-- configure your browser to use the proxy, and try one of each protocol. If any are not allowed through, then obviously the proxy doesn't support it.

What's the model Optiplex? Dell might have an appropriate dual head card as a recommended spare, if it's a recent system.

What type of system is it?

Sometimes you can install a PCI card and run the way you're inquiring upon, if you're lucky. In the past 3-4 years, I've tried it on 4-5 mid- to low-end motherboards, and I've only had luck on one. What brand of motherboard do you have?

Your best bet, if possible, might be to get 2 low-profile PCI video cards. If you can find those, you'll probably have better luck.

I agree with w1r3sp33d... are you sure you don't need a VPN to do what you're talking about? VLANs aren't routable...

First of all,

I'm not really familiar with MAC filtering, but I'm willing to bet that the MAC filtering done by the wireless router is simply denying a DHCP-lease to the system based on MAC addressing. The capability of giving or denying an IP Address based on MAC addressing is pretty basic to most DHCP servers.

Second, if the router that's doing the IP address assignment has the DNS information already, it will either give out the DNS server information to its clients, or it will act as the DNS server for your LAN. The only time you'd need to configure it is on hosts that have statically-assigned IP addresses, and they don't pull their DNS information from the DHCP server.

If you have an uplink port, use it. That way, you don't have to make a crossover cable. You'd plug the uplink port's cable into a regular port on the other switch/router.

a single broadcast domain should only have one DHCP server. If you need hosts to get DHCP addresses, simply allocate enough on the DHCP server. If you have advanced DHCP range assignment needs, you need to disable DHCP on both routers, and just use them as switches. Then, you'd want to run a "real" DHCP server, like dhcpd on Linux.

...and for question 5: Let's have an exercise in troubleshooting. Think about it. 192.168.1.1 is the gateway for the entire network, because it's the one with the Internet connection. Since …

I hope for you not to take this as an insult, but if you're not really knowledgeable on Linux, might another distro, like Debian, be more your speed? It's got tons of packages available, and it's pretty good about auto-configuring things, but still giving you the power to modify things as you see fit.

you can do this one of two ways:

• Let LILO handle the boot loading
• Let the BSD MBR handle the boot loading

Personally, I prefer the latter. The FreeBSD MBR is SUPER simple-- you just hit the Fkeys (F1, F2, F3, etc)for the partition you want to boot. For something like Linux, it will even detect the partition type, and label it as "Linux". :cool: If you go this route, you'd install LILO onto the /boot or / partition of your Linux install, and configure it to automatically boot to that partition with no delays.

If you choose the first option, dual booting with LILO, it's pretty simple. You can follow these directions. They mention FreeBSD specifically, but they work for any BSD:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=32084&seqNum=6&rl=1

I think JoetjeF is right-- you'll need to talk to the provider of the application. You wouldn't notice the difference between 80% utilisation and 99% utilisation, but you don't want your system to be unresponsive while your app runs. From the sounds of it, whoever programmed the application didn't perform correct optimization of their code, to effectively use processor time.

Just to back up what Cain is saying-- I opened a Word document myself, and that same file appeared. This operation is completely normal.

try downloading Windows Script:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c717d943-7e4b-4622-86eb-95a22b832caa&DisplayLang=en

Usually, if you've got a script error, you can resolve it by making sure Windows Script is installed correctly.

What package is it you're installing? What are we installing it on?

Server 2003 is an operating system. You install that, rather than installing XP, or 2000. Do you not already have a machine that is running 2003 server?

If you have one, and you've got IIS (the webserver) running, you'd put your documents in C:\wwwroot by default.

What problems are you having? You said you had problems, but did not mention any error messages, etc, indicating what the problem might be.

sounds like it might be some spyware, just looking at a Google search. You might be better off trying some of the suggestions in our Spyware forum

Do you get any video at all, like before Windows loads? Can you try hitting the F8 key as the system boots?

Maybe the video modes are set too high-- try booting into Safe Mode after hitting F8, or try VGA mode. From there, you should probably consider removing and then reinstalling the video card drivers.

I'd pull out the video card you added, first.

Second, you could have broken the "seal" that the thermal paste created. You'll want to clean the heatsink, and apply more any time that you take off that heatsink. It's very possible that your processor is overheating.

Did you swap the mobo out with a Dell one? Are you not concerned with voiding any warranties?

you'd need a router like this, that can accept a serial modem connection:

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/review/ZoomAir-4165.asp

Try the suggestions here:

http://www.pchell.com/support/limitedconnectivity.shtml

What do you mean? Are you on your system right now?

I recommend buying a new router. If the cable modem works, you're probably in good shape. If you haven't changed anything on the router, it's more than likely that your router just went south on you. Luckily, routers aren't that expensive...

Tried another network card? Updated the WLAN drivers?

I can answer this:

First of all, drop the abbreviations. The performince on your puter will not be imped one bit. Why use abbreviations where in a forum you want to be as clear as possible, so you can get the best help?

As far as your connection is concerned. You've got to use PPPoE so they can authenticate you on their network. When you say you're running 1.6mhz, do you mean 1.6Mbps? More than likely so. Did they change any aspect of your account? Your best bet would be to call the ISP and ensure that your connection and phone lines are as clean as they possibly can be.

Oh yeah!

You'll have to excuse me-- I'm not sitting in front of a system with Apache on it right now.

You just make a public_html folder in the user's directory, and put the files there. That way, when you type:

http://webserver ip/~username

The page will show up that you put in /home/username/public_html

Are you familiar with the patch command? The reason why most people don't proviide instructions for how to do it is because they assume you know what to do with source code patches.

Basically, you download the source to etherreal. You apply the patch while in the ethereal source directory:

cd ethereal-1.xx.xx/

...And then you run patch on it:

patch -n1 < /path/to/patch/file

That patches the source code, then you build the package yourself. You can't really patch a binary package, like an RPM or deb-- you have to do it this way. So, you might want to go ahead and uninstall ethereal, and work on getting it built from source.

I'm afraid it seems no one here understands your question... Mind going into more detail on what it is you're trying to do?

It would occur to me that there should be plenty of HOWTO's available on the web for setting up sendmail and IMAP servers on standalone systems. Tried searching Google yet?

I'm not sure about number 3, but I can at least shed some light on 1 and 2:

Red Hat uses a Sys V style init setup. Basically, you have a bunch of scripts in /etc/init.d . Those scripts are symlinked to locations in /etc/rc?.d, where the ? is a number between 1 and 6.

Did you install Sendmail and Samba from the RPM packages? They should have placed those entries in there. If not, I'd study up on using the chkconfig utility-- that is what Red Hat uses to configure the scripts located in /etc/rc?.d directories.

Try this:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/

This explains how to use Network Address Translation to share an Internet connection.

When you configure your virtual machine, there should be a Network Adapters setting. Do you not have an option to select there?

I seldom use VMware in a *nix like OS, but I remember being able to tell it to use a specific interface...